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Sunday, April 7, 2013

Raising Funny Kids 26: Eco Friendly Kids

Environmental issues and their social implications should be presented to children as a core component of their educational curricula given the climate change impacts we are seeing on a global scale.

While it is important not to frighten and alarm children, this knowledge helps them become aware of fundamental preservationist principles that should be adopted early in life. Adhering to these principles should be a core value of global citizenry.

Over the next 100 years:

0.8ºC - change in temperature would result in

Heatwaves

Oceans warming up

Arctic icecaps melting

Sea levels rising

1ºC - change in temperature would result in

Rare species becoming extinct

Coral reefs will be destroyed

Island nations will sink

2ºC - change in temperature would result in

Greenland melts

Polar Bears go extinct

Water supply affected

3ºC - change in temperature would result in

Environmental refugees being displaced - seeking refuge

Food shortages will be on the rise in first world nations

The Amazon will collapse

4ºC - change in temperature would result in

Millions of refugees now displaced

1/3 of Bangladesh will be under water

Permafrost will melt - gases will be released into the atmosphere

5ºC - change in temperature would result in

Most of the world would be uninhabitable

Tsunamis would be rampant

The Earth would be hotter than it has been in 55 million years

We'd see mass extinction on a global scale

The economics of these changes would result in a minimum of a global GDP lowering by 20%, and that's a conservative figure. Essentially, the results of global warming would be worse than the following historical cocktail:

War + Famine + Plague + Global Nuclear War

The way I see it, conservation strategies should be a core subject that today's global student should be taught in order to successfully address the pressing needs of our world going forward.

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